Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was their initiation into the NSC world of secrecy , and they entered into it with a will . |
| 2 | An important reason for this was their eschewal of the conventional ‘ straight ’ man , two-dimensional and irritable . |
| 3 | This was his proposal of the Ordovician system as a separate thickness of rocks having its distinctive faunas , intervening between the Cambrian system of Adam Sedgwick [ q.v. ] |
| 4 | Asked whether he would ask for a postponement of the talks Mr Clerides said : ‘ This was my position in the election campaign , and it still stands . ’ |
| 5 | No less distinguished was his achievement as a portrait painter , his approach extending from the satirical to the deeply affectionate . |
| 6 | But what was most interesting was her praise of the good characters . |
| 7 | When he tried to upstage her she sauntered down to the front of the stage and such was her control over the audience now , he had to back off , otherwise it would have been he who looked ridiculous . |
| 8 | Such was their anxiety during the two days that were left before the exam results were due that Mona and Sheila found it hard to eat or sleep . |
| 9 | Although Mr X was a director of the ‘ bank ’ , his defence was that he acted in good faith ; indeed , said the defence , such was his faith in the word of his associates that he had invested , and lost , his own money in the venture , always acting on the advice of his colleagues ' , without ever questioning it . |
| 10 | Ricardou refused to countenance any vestigial Mimetic input , such was his preoccupation with a view of the ‘ authentically ’ radical text , as defined by work in and on language . |
| 11 | Such was my introduction to the Decimax D12 system , designed and manufactured by Outline Technical Services of Braintree in Essex . |
| 12 | Equally serious was its neglect of the issue of children 's learning . |
| 13 | She found it painful to anticipate the poor man 's misery , and was dismayed co recognize how ferocious was her dislike for the woman . |
| 14 | What impressed her most of all was his knowledge of the town itself , and of the way a town functions . |
| 15 | Another familiar failing was his distaste for the give-and-take of bargaining . |
| 16 | The Church of England Newspaper said , unkindly , that the weakest part of the Lambeth Conference of 1958 was its report on the Bible ; and that this would have been an excellent report for a Lambeth Conference of 1858 not 1958 . |
| 17 | More important was his role as a linkman . |
| 18 | So sharp was her sense of the rules having changed that she was shocked to see the name Mary Hunter at the top of the card in the doctor 's hand . |
| 19 | Of the report 's 60 recommendations , the most far-reaching was its call on the US administration to support pre-emptive military measures against terrorist targets . |
| 20 | Bernard Baruch asserted that American aid should have been channelled through American businessmen to their European counterparts , so low was his opinion of the economic policies of governments . |
| 21 | That was their fun of a Saturday night . |
| 22 | That was her name in the Psychopomps , that was who she was . |
| 23 | That was her style in the Falklands and it remained her style in a number of the confrontations that she faced over the next years . |
| 24 | There was n't even a mantle , it as a wall bracket that came out of the wall with a little tiny gas jet that fanned out sot of thing and that was your illumination for the the bedroom . |
| 25 | Er I I mean I yes that was your attitude in the . |
| 26 | Well that was your move into the space . |
| 27 | We came together on one point , and that was our attitude towards the media . |
| 28 | That was our experience under the previous Labour Government and would be the experience of Londoners if there were ever to be the misfortune of another Labour Government . |
| 29 | Er , and that was my brainwave of the week , basically . |
| 30 | That was my impression of a Leeds accent . |